#anthony armstrong jones

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The Queen, the Queen Mother and Princess Anne wave goodbye to Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon from Buckingahm Palace forecourt as they leave for their honeymoon on May 6, 1960.

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On this day in 1971

The Royal Family, Together

26th December 1971. The whole Royal Family comes together for a photoshoot in Windsor Castle.

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Letters from the late Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret to their childhood riding instructors are to be auctioned in April, Tatler can exclusively reveal.

The collection includes Christmas cards, invitations, telegrams and handwritten notes from the late Queen and Princess Margaret to their riding instructors, father-and-daughter duo Horace and Sybil Smith.

It reveals a lifelong connection that started when the two young princesses first sat in the saddle.

Horace and Sybil Smith provided riding classes at Cadogan Riding School in Belgravia, an internationally famous institution fit for two young royals with a budding love of horses.

By 1938, 12-year-old Princess Elizabeth and 9-year-old Princess Margaret were attending lessons there, both being taught how to ride by the Smiths.

These lessons stayed with them for life: both the late Queen and Princess Margaret were keen riders, with the Queen riding on horseback at Trooping the Colour and remaining in the saddle into her 90s.

Both Princess Margaret and the Queen stayed in contact with their beloved riding teachers, the Smiths, throughout their lives.

Their letters show their deep affection for the instructors, along with gratitude for the lessons they taught them.

They sent Christmas cards almost every year, along with telegrams of thanks: the collection includes 30 Christmas cards from the mid 1940s until early 1990s.

Princess Margaret also sent them an invitation to her wedding to Anthony Armstrong Jones in 1960, and the Queen invited them to the Thanksgiving Service of her 25th wedding anniversary to Prince Philip in 1972 - both of which are included in the collection.

In 2016, the Royal Windsor Pageant had a re-enactment of the princesses receiving lessons from the Smiths as a tribute to the role they played in the lives of the young princesses.

On Sybil’s 90th birthday, Princess Margaret sent a letter which read:

‘Many happy returns of the day, and congratulations on your 90th birthday. I have never forgotten our happy riding lessons which resulted in many years of enjoyable times in the saddle. Have a lovely time. Love from, Margaret.’

In 1950, the then Princess Elizabeth sent Horace Smith a letter from Malta, where she was visiting Prince Philip.

She wrote:

‘I send my sincere thanks to you and Sybil for your message of good wishes for my birthday, which I much appreciate.

It is lovely out here and I have become a great polo fan - I even took it up mildly myself when I was out here last year.

It is extremely good for one’s riding, I find, as all the ponies are so quick that the unexpected turn, which they are inclined to do, has one off in a moment!’

Letters from the Queen and Princess Margaret to the Smiths were all kept by Sybil Smith, who passed them onto a friend when she died.

They are to be auctioned on 18 April 2023 by Griffin’s Auctioneers and Valuers based in Warwick.

The total estimate for whole collection is around £3000 to £5000.

Ben Griffin, director at Griffin’s told Tatler:

‘We are delighted to be able to offer this large and significant collection of correspondence from the late Queen and other members of the Royal family that were sent to Sybil and her father over the span of five decades.’

He added:

‘The Malta letter in particular gives an fascinating insight to the Queen's life during the earliest days of her marriage to The Duke of Edinburgh, a period she herself referred to as “the happiest days in her life”.’

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Tony relaxing on the royal carpets, as you do. I like his style.

📷 Netflix The Crown (2017) s2:10 my gifs

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Matthew Goode in The Crown season 2

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SEASON 2 EPISODE 7

Princess Margaret Marries Antony Armstrong-Jones

May 6, 1960: After years of falling for a variety of “wrong” men, Princess Margaret meets the rakish Antony Armstrong-Jones (Matthew Goode), a one-time portrait photographer of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, at a dinner party in 1957. The two begin dating in secret almost immediately and upon unexpectedly receiving Elizabeth’s approval, they marry on May 6, 1960, in the first televised royal wedding at Westminster Abbey. Hurray for Margot! 

On Set: When it came to styling Tony, costume designer Jane Petrie wanted him to be “a really cool, ’60s guy that Margaret would obviously be drawn to — a little bit dangerous, a little bit edgy, anti-establishment.” ♚

-The Crown: A Royal Timeline, Netflix Tudum

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The Crown Season 2 promotion at London’s St Pancras Immersion Zone in 2017. “The eye-catching vinyl features royal “portraits” of the series’ main cast, framed with a metallic gold finish, adding to the premium impact.” Photo:  JCDecaux  ♚

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Krull (1983)

Director - Peter Yates, Cinematography - Peter Suschitzky

"We all risk our lives on this journey. My risk is no greater than yours."

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_____Anthony Armstrong-Jones

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Today, on 13th January, 2017

Lord Snowdon, former husband to Princess Margaret and photographer,died at the age of 86

Brian May remembers

Sad to hear of the passing of Lord Snowdon. I can’t say I was his friend, though perhaps I would like to have been. We did spend a couple of days together as Queen (the rock group) and portrait photographer, and it was very memorable. I knew of Lord Snowdon from when I was quite small. As Anthony Armstrong Jones he had married the very glamorous Princess Margaret, in Westminster Abbey, in top level splendour, televised in colour (!) and celebrated throughout the land. Somehow it caught my imagination, gave me a thrill, to the point where I pasted a picture of the handsome couple in my personal photo album. It was a fairy-tale. Shy handsome commoner weds beautiful royal princess. Much later I realised that Tony Armstrong Jones, now Lord Snowdon, was a dedicated artist, a gentleman photographer in true Victorian style, and that his world had stayed quite separate from the Royal Family he had married into. I believe he had a Victorian sensibility in more than one way. A Gentleman, certainly, and a man of independent means, he did not need to take photographs to earn a living. It was his art. And in the details of his practice, too, he adhered to early traditions of photography. He believed that the essence of a sitter for a portrait was to be revealed only in natural light.

Well, this is what he told us, when the four of us found ourselves at his house, our mission being to find the elusive ‘Group Shot’ - a four-fold portrait of a Rock Band, for the cover of an album. Now this was around 1981, about 35 years ago. So the portrait of this session in my mind is a little faded. But Snowdon was a delightful, thoughtful, modest and gentle man, given to pausing to ponder, in his walking around the room, with a slight limp, a relic from a childhood illness, as he looked at us, planning his shoot.

I’m sure Roger has better recollections than I, but I seem to remember us sitting around a little awkwardly, sipping coffee, discussing what we were trying to achieve. I don’t believe we had any preconceptions at all … the four of us hadn’t had the chance to confer beforehand, and I think on this occasion we didn’t have a plan. We assumed that this accomplished photographer would bring a fresh approach. We’d done a lot of this kind of session, of course, over the years, notably with George Hurrell, iconic Hollywood portraitist, and Mick Rock, who had pulled off a very memorable diamond format four-shot on a black background, which not only graced the cover of our early album Queen II, but, brought to life, became the shot that everyone remembers from the Bohemian Rhapsody video some years later.

Snowdon told us that he didn’t want an overriding theme - he didn’t think we need to ‘try so hard’. He said he wanted us naturally filling the space, and he was absolutely insistent that the lighting would be natural too … only the daylight which pervaded his studio, again, Victorian style - more or less a glass-house. He would not use any artificial light. Now I may be wrong about this, but I seem to remember we talked so much and drank so much coffee, that time passed and the light started to fade. Anthony took some test shots on his large-format camera (no 35mm for him) and wasn’t happy. So he said something like … "I know what to do now, but we missed our slot. I’m not going to use studio lights - I want the quality of daylight in this shot. Can you come back tomorrow?” Strangely enough we could. And then it was all very quick. He took a few solo shots of us singly (I wonder where they are ?) And then went for the cover shot of the four of us. I think he only took a couple of dozen shots, very much like we’d seen Hurrell do. He knew exactly what he wanted, and he knew when it was in the bag - even though he couldn't verify that on the spot. The developing of the negative had to be done, and prints made, before anyone could see the result.

So we said our goodbyes and left - and … that was it. The picture we wanted arrived a couple of days later, and it was perfect for what we needed - nicely balanced in composition, with all of us looking quite decent; understated, a little formal, yet not stiff, and beautifully lit by Nature herself, with a little help from Lord Snowdon.

The album ? It was to become the biggest selling British album in History - Queen’s Greatest Hits.

We decided to mount the picture in an unusual way. Inspired by the first Superman Film, we skewed the photograph as if it were mounted flat on a piece of glass spinning through space. So our faces are distorted by perspective. Years later, for the re-issue for Universal Records, we decided to ‘undo’ that distortion, and on this cover you see Snowdon’s picture exactly as it was taken. Pure ! I like that version best. As Snowdon himself might have said … it wasn’t trying too hard.

You won’t find this stuff on Wikipedia, of course. In the anarchy of the Internet based information, anybody can contribute stuff as long as they are citing someone who said it previously ! So the entry as I just looked at it is a ripe mixture of fact and inaccuracies - they don’t even mention who took the cover photograph. Who will write history ? Well, certainly not me … with my memory weaving its own spells at this distance. But History was certainly made in those fleeting moments when we were privileged to enjoy the company of that fine gentleman, Snowdon

RIP

Bri - january 13, 2017

(source: brianmay.com)

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Anthony Armstrong-Jone's Half Brothers, London, England, Photo by Loomis Dean, 1960

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Hátigen A vicc, hogy az Apollo 11 legénységének is van csillaga a tv-ben nyújtott tevékenységért. Talán a Holdtagadók Társasága szponzorálta :) Végülis: Churchill meg irodalmi Nobel-díjat kapott :)

VIDEO:

A lencsevégre kapott valakik, benne néhány kivándorolt/elmenekült/elűzött magyarral:

Elvis Presley, Orson Welles, Clark Gable, Audrey Hepburn, Arthur Spiegel, Apollo 11 Crew (Neil Armstrong, Edvin E. Aldrin), August Lumiere, Johnny Cash, Humphrey Bogart, Ernest Borgnine, Mariska Hargitay, Kim Novak, Kevin Bacon, Lassie, Ronald Reagan, George Cukor, David Niven, Marlene Dietrich, Jane's Addiction, Richard Pryor, Alfred Hitchcock, Frank Sinatra, Orson Welles, Joseph Szigeti, Tom Jones, Eva Gabor, Larry King, John Cusack, Vladimir Horowitz, Daniel Radcliffe, Celine Dion, Bee Gees, Matt Damon, Forest Whitaker, Martin Landau, Billy Bob Thornton, Harrison Ford, Kevin Costner, Russel Crowe, Anthony Hopkins, Martin Scorsese, Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Halle Berry, Steven Spielberg, Jamie Foxx, Jamie Foxx, Susan Sarandon, Whoopi Goldberg, Bela Lugosi, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rod Stewart, Hugh Laurie, Ella Fitzgerald, Aerosmith, Janis Joplin, Mötley Crue, Marilyn Monroe, Ozzy Osbourne, Jay Leno, Sandra Bullock, Keanu Reeves, Anthony Perkins, Britney Spears, Antonio Banderas, Peter Jackson, Ryan Reynolds, Ricky Martin, The Doors, Slash, John Travolta, Salma Hayek, Charles Bronson, William Shatner, Godzilla, Tom Selleck, Tom Selleck, Jodie Foster, Quentin Tarantino, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Elton John, Billy Crystal, Bruce Willis, Tommy Lee Jones, Bruce Lee, Orlando Bloom, Eddie Murphy, Drew Barrymore, Julio Iglesias, Glenn Close, James Dunn, Alice Cooper, Henry Fonda, David Hasselhoff, Patrick Swayze, Richard Chamberlain, Samuel L. Jackson, Johnny Depp, RuPaul, Peter Falk, Thomas A. Edison, Helen Mirren, Tony Curtis, Dwayne Johnson, Groucho Marx, Greta Garbo, Kermit the Frog, Mariah Carey, George Clooney, Colleen Moore, Eddie Murphy, Denzel Washington, Walter Matthau, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Peter Sellers, Sophia Loren, Anthony Quinn, Sean Connery, Al Pacino, Johnny Depp, Robert de Niro, The Hunger Games, Kevin Costner, Kim Novak, Henry Fonda, etc.

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on this day in 1960

A Boat Race

Princess Margaret and her fiance Antony Armstrong-Jones attend the Oxford v Cambridge Boat Race 1960. The couple came aboard at the Ibis Rowing Club, Chiswick. 3rd April 1960.

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Admired British actor Matthew Goode has a long list of successful films in which he has appeared including Match Point, Imagine Me & You, My Family and Other Animals, Copying Beethoven, The Lookout, Brideshead Revisited, Watchmen, A Single Man, Leap Year, Stoker and The Imitation Game. Was a member of the cast of the popular Downton Abbey series and played Anthony Armstrong-Jones, Princess Margaret’s husband, in The Crown. Says his best golfing moment was partnering Danny Willett in the 2010 Championship and playing with Martin Kaymer, the eventual winner, in the final group. This is the eighth time he has played. Says he once hit the ball straight right at the 18th and it bounced on the road and onto a building before ricocheting on to the green.

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The Crown Matthew Goode rewatch

The opening scene in The Crown s2e4 is 💥. Anthony Armstrong-Jones (Matthew Goode) is late for a photography job, speeding on his bike (there's a whiff of danger about him, bring it on Tony is all I can say).

The first, split second encounter btw Tony and Princess Margaret (Vanessa Kirby) is just electric🔥

Vanessa Kirby is magnificient in The Crown. She gives a poignant performance as Princess Margaret, lost and heart-broken, trapped in a life of convention and pretence, and forbidden from being with the man she loves. She is SO ready for the thrill of Tony / Matthew Goode 🔥.

📷 Netflix The Crown (2017) s2e4 my edit

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I wish all photographers were this hot